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The elderly Swiss women behind a landmark ruling. For nearly a decade, they argued that Switzerland’

Following the knife attack in a shopping mall in Sydney, speculations and false allegations were spr

India will host the world's biggest election this year when nearly one billion people will vote. Org

Israel says 99% of the missiles and drones fired by Iran on Saturday night were intercepted without

This weekend marks a decade since 276 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram militants in Chibok, n

There’s no playbook for when a ship the size of the Eiffel Tower knocks over a bridge spanning more

The US government is suing some of the biggest tech companies on the planet – Amazon, Apple, Google

It’s two years since occupying Russian troops departed the Ukrainian town of Bucha. The trail of dea

It's 30 years since the genocide in Rwanda took the lives of an estimated 800,000 people. The annive

Jo Floto – who’s covered conflict for more than two decades - takes us back to the first text he rec

For decades the Japanese entertainment industry ignored allegations that Johnny Kitagawa – a powerfu

Mixed-sex raves are illegal in Iran. Partygoers risk fines, prison or lashes from the morality polic

China has the largest elderly population in the world. Pension and health care systems are strugglin

Almost as soon as the company Open AI released ChatGPT4, people started to ask...will it take my job

The Wall Street Journal reporter, who is the first US journalist charged with spying in Russia since

In a new BBC documentary, a single Ukrainian infantry company find themselves in a life or death bat

Sam Bankman-Fried was the golden boy of cryptocurrency. He was dubbed the king and saviour of the in

When Guyana discovered huge offshore oil reserves in 2015, it transformed the prospects of a country

On this episode, we’re covering two very different stories. After the Islamic State group claimed re

Politicians across Europe have long been grappling with the issue of irregular migration, and their